Capital Structure and Firm Performance: A New Approach to Testing Agency Theory and an Application to the Banking Industry
- Topics:
- Lease or Buy
- Tags:
- Advertising & Promotion,
- Marketing,
- Financial Services,
- Finance,
- Federal Reserve Board,
- Capital Structures,
- Capital Structure,
- Banking,
- Agency,
- Performance
- Source:
- The Federal Reserve Board
FREE Registration is required
Overview: This paper discusses the capital structure, which employs simultaneous-equations model that accounts for reverse causality from performance and agency costs, banking, efficiency. It discusses that data on the U.S. banking industry are consistent with the theory, and the results are statistically significant, economically significant, and robust.
(Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.)
Format: PDF | Size: 289KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 38



